ARGH - how, having experienced something so beautiful and moving as that, could Lily NOT admit her love for Severus and go out with him instead? She CLEARLY loves him or else she would not feel so much regret and cry at what they had lost... She should have listened to her heart and let herself love Severus! It's so heartbreaking that this was all that she let happen between them, and that she let Severus live his whole life aching for her when they could have shared something so wonderful :( I both hate and love the sadness and poignancy running through this story... and I want to cry for Severus.